Order acquisition processes
- handling of enquiries
- cost calculation with variants
- pricing & quotations
- customer / service orders
Sector-specific, pre-configured processes
Materials management
- procurement
- stock management
- administration of storage facilities
- material flow management
- printing of labels
Order acquisition processes
- materials / capacity planning
- intercompany business
- production planning
- optimization of order sequencing
Production / checkback
- acquisition of production data
- acquisition of machine data
- electronic job folder
- performance statistics for production
- quality inspection
Dispatch and invoicing
- transport planning
- invoicing of goods
- invoicing of services
- complaint management
Finance and controlling
- fixed asset accounting
- cost-center accounting
- projected and actual cost calculation
- profit and loss statement
- management reporting
Optional modules
- personnel management
- quality management
- maintenance
producing and supplying a large number of variable products, just in time and on a daily basis, and on competitive terms – we can help you to achieve this with our unique process automation and full cost and yield transparency in real time
Specific processes and solution components
Webshop integration
- automatic generation of orders
- synchronization of master data
- continual status reports
- transmission of products and variants to shop with basic and extra charges
Prepress integration
- PDF workflow
- JDF connection to prepress
- JDF connection to image setter
- JDF connection to offset printing
Product breakdown
- mathematical definition of folding variants
- optimal manufacturing routes
- automatic panelization
Postpress automation
- automatic panelization
- attention to delivery priorities
- approval of suggestions for joint print allocation and overall PDF version with graphic content
Cost calculation
- performance catalog of typical processes and machines
- complications / factors that may lead to reduced output
- set of standards for wastage, setup and output specifications
- generation of standard and individual products
- maintenance of empirical knowledge
- cost calculation of variants
- definition of critical run sizes for alternative manufacturing routes
- automatic updates when costs change
- cost comparison between parcel service and carrier
Price tableau
- target prices and minimum price levels for all possible quantity scales
- extra charges for variants and additional work
- automatic fixing of sales prices in accordance with target contribution margins
- calculated risk factor involved in joint print allocation
- drawing up of price lists
Finishing and distribution cockpit
- packing at the cutting machine
- division of run to cater to any number of delivery addresses
- per-delivery packing instructions
- dispatch label printing
- clear labeling of cash-on-delivery packages
- cash-on-delivery lists
- finishing and distribution cockpit
Important extra functions
- incoming payment / delivery stop conditional on preflight check
- recalculation of delivery date depending on priority
- aggregated report (acquisition of production data) for short runs
- aggregated product costing analysis
